It's spam. If you scale this up, the few IRC servers that currently accept this type of behaviour will start blocking it.
You might as well be trying to use blog comment sections as k/v stores.
It's spam. If you scale this up, the few IRC servers that currently accept this type of behaviour will start blocking it.
You might as well be trying to use blog comment sections as k/v stores.
If a channel typically attracts users and their discussion increases as more people join, which may happen over a very long time frame, then I argue that my design is actually less impactful than a traditional channel. Since it is not designed for discussion.
At the very least, I can tell you that Libera would define this as abuse and actively remove it. Our servers are for users to chat, not for software to communicate.
And to clarify on spam, this takes resources from the target of a given network. If that networks target is to be a platform for software communication, sure. But in general, IRC networks are there to relay chat, hence the Internet Relay Chat name. This kind of thing takes processing power away from users, and increases memory load on the server. Not to mention bloating it's services database.